Ecological risk assessment of trace metal accumulation in sediments of Veraval Harbor, Gujarat, Arabian Sea

Abrahim, 2008, Assessment of heavy metal enrichment factors and the degree of contamination in marine sediments from Tamaki Estuary, Auckland, New Zealand, Environ. Monit. Assess., 136, 227, 10.1007/s10661-007-9678-2 Athalye, 2001, Heavy metals in the abiotic and biotic components of Thane creek, India, Ecology, Environment and Conservation, 7, 319 Bhadja, 2014, 547395 Borade, 2015, Assessment of enteric bacterial indicators and correlation with physico-chemical parameters in Veraval coast, India, Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, 44, 501 Borole, 1982, Composition of Narbadaand Tapti estuarine particulates and adjacent Arabian Sea sediments, Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, 11, 57 Bothner, 1998, Metal concentrations in surface sediments of Boston harbour changes with time, Mar. Environ. Res., 45, 17, 10.1016/S0141-1136(97)00027-5 Caeiro, 2005, Assessing heavy metal contamination in Sado Estuary sediment: an index analysis approach, Ecol. Indic., 5, 151, 10.1016/j.ecolind.2005.02.001 CCME, 1995 Chakravarty, 2009, Metal pollution assessment in sediments of the Dikrong River, N.E. India, J. Hum. Ecol., 27, 63, 10.1080/09709274.2009.11906193 Chandrasekaran, 2014, Assessment of heavy metal distribution pattern in the sediments of Tamirabarani river and estuary, east coast of Tamil Nadu, India. Environ Earth Sci. Chen, 2007, Distribution and accumulation of heavy metals in sediments of Kaohsiung Harbor, Taiwan, Chemosphere, 66, 1431, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.09.030 Cortada, 2013, The nature and contamination of sediments in the Plentzia estuary (Biscay province, Spain), Geogaceta, 54, 147 Dickinson, 1996, Heavy metal history from cores in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, Environ. Geol., 27, 59, 10.1007/BF00770603 Dineshbabu, 2003, Fishery and some biological aspects of penaeid shrimps along Saurashtra region, J. Mar. biol. Ass. India., 45, 195 Duman, 2007, Seasonal variability of heavy metals in surface sediment of Lake Sapanca, Turkey. Environ. Monit. Assess., 133, 277, 10.1007/s10661-006-9580-3 Fatoki, 2001, An assessment of heavy metal pollution in the East London and Port Elizabeth harbours, Water SA, 27, 233 Ganapati, 1969, Biology of pollution in Visakhapatnam harbor, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 166, 1 Ganapati, 1973, Pollution in Visakhapatnam harbour, Curr. Sci., 42, 490 Goher, 2014, Metal pollution assessment in the surface sediment of Lake Nasser, Egypt, Egypt. J. Aquat. Res., 10.1016/j.ejar.2014.09.004 Guerra-Garcı'a, 2005, Assessing pollution levels in sediments of a harbor with two opposing entrances. Environmental implications, J. Environ. Manag., 77, 1, 10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.01.023 Hakanson, 1980, An ecological risk index for aquatic pollution control: a sedimentological approach, Water Res., 14, 975, 10.1016/0043-1354(80)90143-8 Ho, 2010, Distribution and contamination status of heavy metals in estuarine sediments near CuaOng harbor, HaLong Bay, Vietnam, Geol. Belg., 13, 37 Huang, 2013, Spatial risk assessment and sources identification of heavy metals in surface sediments from the Dongting Lake, middle China, J. Geochem. Explor., 132, 75, 10.1016/j.gexplo.2013.05.007 Krishnakumar, 1998, Heavy metal distribution in the biotic and abiotic matrices along Karnataka coast, west coast of India, Indian J. Mar. Sci., 27, 201 Kumar, 2009, Assessment of metal concentration in the sediment cores of Manakudy estuary, south west coast of India, Indian J. Mar. Sci., 38, 235 Long, 1995, Incidence of adverse biological effects within ranges of chemical concentrations in marine and estuarine sediments, Environ. Manag., 19, 81, 10.1007/BF02472006 Long, 1998, Predicting toxicity in marine sediments with numerical sediment quality guidelines, Environ. Toxicol. Chem., 17, 714, 10.1002/etc.5620170428 MacDonald, 1996, Development and evaluation of sediment quality guidelines for Florida coastal water, Ecotoxicology, 5, 253, 10.1007/BF00118995 MacDonald, 2000, Development and evaluation of consensus-based sediment quality guidelines for freshwater ecosystems, Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol., 39, 20, 10.1007/s002440010075 Mandal, 2015, Bio-optic characterization of Discosphaeratubifer bloom occurs in an overcrowded fishing harbour at Veraval, India, Environ. Monit. Assess., 187, 597, 10.1007/s10661-015-4798-6 Matkar, 1981, Distribution of Zn, Cu, Mn, and Fe in Bombay harbour bay, Indian J. Mar. Sci., 10, 35 Mccready, 2006, Metallic and organic contaminants in sediments of Sydney Harbour, Australia and vicinity - a chemical dataset for evaluating sediment quality guidelines, Environ. Int., 32, 455, 10.1016/j.envint.2005.10.006 Muller, 1969, Index of geo accumulation in sediments of the Rhine River, GeoJournal, 2, 108 Paetzel, 2003, Sediment pollution in the Vagen, Bergen harbour, Norway, Environ. Geol., 43, 476, 10.1007/s00254-002-0662-4 Patel, 1985, Heavy metals in the Bombay Harbour area, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 16, 22, 10.1016/0025-326X(85)90255-3 Pragatheeswaran, 1986, Distribution of heavy metals and organic carbon in sediments off Madras and Visakhapatnam, Mahasagar, 19, 39 Prundeanu, 2011, The distribution of heavy metals and As in soils of the Falticeni municipality and its surroundings, Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 6, 51 Raman, 1995, Pollution effects in Visakhapatnam harbour, India: anoverview of 23years of investigations and monitoring, Helgoländer Meeresun., 49, 633, 10.1007/BF02368388 Ray, 2006, Assessment of Godavari estuarine mangrove ecosystem through heavy metal studies, Environ. Int., 32, 219, 10.1016/j.envint.2005.08.014 Sahu, 2013, Evaluation of significant sources influencing the variation of physico-chemical parameters in Port Blair Bay, South Andaman, India by using multivariate statistics, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 66, 246, 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.09.021 Salomons, 1984 Senthilnathan, 1999, Heavy metal distribution in Pondicherry harbour, southeast coast of India, Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, 28, 380 Serrano, 2011, The Posidoniaoceanica marine sedimentary record: a Holocene archive of heavy metal pollution, Sci. Total Environ., 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.001 Shang, 2015, Assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments from Gansu section of Yellow River, China, Environ. Monit. Assess., 187, 79, 10.1007/s10661-015-4328-6 Sharma, 1996, Petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals in Visakhapatnam harbour and Kakinada bay, east coast of India, Indian J. Mar. Sci., 25, 148 Shirodkar, 2012, Tide dependent seasonal changes in water quality and assimilative capacity of anthropogenically influenced Mormugaoharbour water, Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences., 41, 314 Sinex, 1981, Regional geochemistry of heavy elements in Chesapeake Bay sediments, Environ. Geol., 3, 315, 10.1007/BF02473521 Subramanian, 1989, Distribution and fractionation of heavy metals in the Cauvery Estuary, India, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 20, 286, 10.1016/0025-326X(89)90302-0 Sundaray, 2011, Geochemical speciation and risk assessment of heavy metal in the river estuarine sediment - a case study, Mahanadi basin, India, J. Hazard. Mater., 186, 1837, 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.12.081 Sutherland, 2000, Bed sediment-associated heavy metals in an urban stream, Oahu, Hawaii, Environ. Geol., 6, 611, 10.1007/s002540050473 Taylor, 1964, Abundances of chemical elements in the continental crust: a new table, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 28, 1273, 10.1016/0016-7037(64)90129-2 Tomlinson, 1980, Problems in the assessment of heavy-metal levels in estuaries and the formation of a pollution index, Helgol. Mar. Res., 33, 566 Turekian, 1961, Distribution of the elements in some major units of the Earth's crust, Geol. Soc. Am., 72, 175, 10.1130/0016-7606(1961)72[175:DOTEIS]2.0.CO;2 US Environmental Protection Agency, Method (EPA 3052), 1996 Veerasingam, 2012, Heavy metals and ecological risk assessment in marine sediments of Chennai, India, Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences., 7, 111 Vega, 1998, Assessment of seasonal and polluting effects on the quality of river water by exploratory data analysis, Water Res., 32, 3581, 10.1016/S0043-1354(98)00138-9 Wang, 2013, Assessment of the potential ecological risk of heavy metals in reclaimed soils at an opencast coal mine, Disaster Advance, 6, 366 Wedepohl, 1995, The composition of the continental crust, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 59, 1217, 10.1016/0016-7037(95)00038-2 Zahra, 2014, Enrichment and geo-accumulation of heavy metals and risk assessment of sediments of the KurangNallah - feeding tributary of the Rawal Lake Reservoir, Pakistan, Sci. Total Environ., 470–471, 925, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.017